Trade Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969
3. Act not
to apply in Certain Cases.
Unless the
Central Government, by notification otherwise directs, this Act shall not apply
to –
a. any
undertaking owned or controlled by a Government company,
b. any
undertaking owned or controlled by the Government,
c. any
undertaking owned or controlled by a corporation (not being a company)
established by or under any Central, Provincial or State Act,
d. any
trade union or other association of workmen or employees formed for their own
reasonable protection as such workmen or employees,
e. any
undertaking engaged in an industry, the management of which has been taken over
by any person or body of persons in pursuance of any authorisation made by the
Central Government under any law for the time being in force,
f. any
undertaking owned by a co-operative society formed and registered under any
Central, Provincial or State Act relating to co-operative societies,
g. any
financial institution.
Explanation
: In
determining, for the purposes of clause (c), whether or not any undertaking is
owned or controlled by a corporation, the shares held by financial institutions
shall not be taken into account.